Nouveautés

In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man’s pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her.

Auteur d' Un jour , récemment adapté en série sur Netflix, David Nicholls nous offre la plus délicieuse des comédies romantiques, tout simplement irrésistible. Une histoire d'amour portée par la lecture sensible de Pierre Lognay... Il faut parfois se perdre pour mieux se retrouver... Marnie est en pleine impasse. Coincée dans son job, dans ses amitiés, dans ses amours, cette correctrice se demande souvent à quel moment sa vie a commencé à se dérouler sans elle. Michael est en pleine détresse.

"L'idée d'Ourika, c'est une idée d'inégalité, soit de nature, soit de position sociale, une idée d'empêchement, d'obstacle entre le désir de l'âme et l'objet mortel ; c'est quelque chose qui manque et qui dévore, et qui crée une sorte d'envie sur la tendresse. (...) L'auteur de ces touchants récits aime à exprimer l'impossible et à y briser les cœurs qu'il préfère, les êtres chéris qu'il a formés : le ciel seulement s'ouvre à la fin pour verser quelque rosée qui rafraîchit." - Sainte-Beuve.

Un escritor que curiosamente responde al nombre de Juan José Millás recibe el encargo del periódico en el que colabora para escribir el que, cree, puede ser su último reportaje. Por ello debe pensar con cuidado el tema que sirva de broche de oro a toda una carrera.

Императорский Китай, XV век. Тань Юньсянь — аристократка, и ее судьба, как судьбы тысяч других дочерей чиновников, предопределена: однообразная жизнь во внутренних покоях, невыносимые мучения от бинтования ног, а затем — брак по договоренности и непременная обязанность родить сына. Но после смерти матери отец отправляет юную Юньсянь к своим родителям-врачам, и там, под руководством бабушки, девочка с головой погружается в изучение медицины. Согласно конфуцианскому канону врачу-мужчине нельзя видеть женщин, а женщине-врачу — соприкасаться с кровью, но кто-то же должен исцелять женские недуги!

Lisa's grandfather is turning 100, and her family is gathering to celebrate in a sprawling southern Californian apricot orchard. The orchard is both the heart of their family and a reminder of its past. Like many immigrants to America, Joe and his wife, Anna, fled their home country in one of the horrific ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century. Forced out of Turkey because they were Greek, they arrived in the New World full of hope. A piece of land with a thriving orchard gave a new beginning to a new American family.

Польша, Варшава, 1930-е годы. Воздух пронизан тревожными предчувствиями мировой катастрофы. Аарон Грейдингер — молодой писатель, сын раввина, ведущий богемный образ жизни. Запутавшись в любовных связях и творческих неудачах, он пытается написать мистическую пьесу и вместе с остальными варшавскими евреями ждет неминуемого конца света. Одним весенним днем, гуляя по нищим еврейским кварталам своего детства, он решает заглянуть в дом, где жила его первая возлюбленная, которую он не видел целых двадцать лет.

The best of cult author Bruno Schulz's captivatingly strange and beautiful short stories. The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across floorboards. Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms, through strange shops and endless storms.

In Reimen beschrieben, in Liedern besungen. So kann man sich mit auf die Reise begeben. Mal kritisch, mal weise, mal albern, mal traurig. Die Bilder, sie kommen mal lustig, mal schaurig. Und wollen des Lesers Gedanken beleben. In Reimen beschrieben, in Liedern besungen.

John Worthing, a carefree young gentleman, is the inventor of a fictitious brother, “Ernest,” whose wicked ways afford John an excuse to leave his country home from time to time and journey to London, where he stays with his close friend and confidant, Algernon Moncrieff. Algernon has a cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax, with whom John is deeply in love.

Nicht nur die Brüder Grimm oder Hans Christian Andersen haben Märchen gesammelt oder geschrieben, auch in anderen Ländern ist das Märchen selbstverständlich kulturelles Volksgut. In Indien wurden und werden gerne Märchen erzählt - wie diese feine Sammlung von zwanzig wunderbaren Geschichten beweist! Einige Themen kommen uns bekannt vor, anderes ist ganz neu - und natürlich mit dem Kolorit des Subkontinentalen versehen!

A memoir in verse Errol Hess, the son of a West Virginia factory worker, moved 300 miles south in the early 1970s to begin farming with his new wife. Together, they raised tobacco (to sell), vegetables (to eat), and a crop of healthy children. Like many members of the back-to-the-land movement, the family fled the poverty of small-holding and returned to town a dozen years later. But their lives and the farms soil were both left a little richer for their time spent listening to the land.

The discovery of the bodies of two "honky-tonk hitmen" on land belonging to a former relative brings the Trapnell siblings, self-centered Aimee, indolent Trainor, and brilliant Marsh, back to White Oaks, their opulent ancestral home. FBI Special Agent Carson Burns is tasked with protecting them, something she finds increasingly difficult, as sinister events keep occurring which barely avoid being fatal.

Las nieves eternas de Baldomero Lillo es una historia corta que retrata la dura vida de los trabajadores en una mina ubicada en la cordillera andina. La trama sigue a un minero anciano, apodado "El Viejo", que se enfrenta a las condiciones implacables de la naturaleza y a la explotación laboral. A través de su lucha por sobrevivir y proteger a su hijo de los peligros del trabajo minero, Lillo expone la explotación y el sacrificio de los trabajadores. La obra resalta la resistencia y el estoicismo humano ante un ambiente inhóspito y una vida llena de dificultades.

मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकेमधील 'साल्हेरगडावरील स्वारी' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक माहिती देणारा लेख. हा लेख ऐकता ऐकता तुम्ही मावळा गेम खेळू शकता.

Mateo Martinez is many things. The starting pitcher of the New York Monarchs, a devoted single father, and most recently, my new boss. When the opportunity to finally move out of my parent's cramped apartment and into his swanky home to nanny for his daughter arose, I simply couldn't pass it up. Until I made the silly suggestion for him to keep me on a three-strikes system, and I'm racking them up at lightning speed.

Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the spotlight at the height of her career to live out the rest of her life as a recluse. Now her remaining family members are gathered for the reading of her will, and her daughters expect to inherit their childhood home: Vivian’s grand, sprawling, Southern California garden estate. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead—one that has suddenly returned after decades of estrangement.

Noelle Tom really shouldn’t have eaten those dumplings at the night market. But the old woman at the stall said they’d give her what she needed most, and what Noelle desperately needed after another long workweek was food. Except now she’s reliving the same Friday. Every morning her alarm goes off at 6:45, and the Wordle answer is always “happy.” Worst of all, any work she does at her job as an engineer? It’s erased when she wakes up. Monday might never come in this workaholic’s nightmare.

" Dis-leur Jeannot, dis-leur de raconter tout cela de ma part, avec leurs mots à eux, ceux de leur époque. Les miens ne sont faits que des accents de mon pays, du sang que j'ai dans la bouche et sur les mains. ". Mars 1943. À Toulouse, Raymond, 20 ans, et son frère Claude, 17 ans, rejoignent la Résistance ; ils y rencontrent des garçons et des filles de leur âge. Planques, traques, combats, arrestations au petit matin, leur périple les conduira jusqu'au train fantôme. Quand l'un d'entre eux tombe, un autre sort de l'ombre...

It’s another scorching summer in Chicago, and fifteen-year-old Margarita is spending her vacation as usual, under the not-so-watchful eyes of her aging maternal grandparents. All told, the plucky teen would much rather be at home in Germany, exploring Berlin with her best friend, Anna, or with Avi, her doting Israeli father, a cantor at their local synagogue with whom she has shared a special bond ever since her mother, Marsha, abandoned the family. Instead, she’s stuck halfway around the world, homesick and tortured by the sound of her grandparents’ chewing.